The biological mother of a dead newborn found floating on the Mississippi River in 2011 is facing criminal charges.

A woman was charged in a nearly 14-year-old cold case of a baby found dead in Minnesota floating down the Mississippi River river as investigators say DNA evidence shows she was the infant's mother.

A Minnesota woman has been charged in a more than decade-old cold case of a baby girl whose body was found floating down the Mississippi River.DNA evidence now shows that Jennifer Nichole Baechle, 43,